Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesPaul A. Bennett World Publishing Company, 1951 - 417 páginas A collection of forty articles, poems, and essays by practitioners of the art of bookmaking. A unique feature of this book is that its articles are set in twenty-two different typefaces; thus it serves as a student's specimen book, affording an interesting comparison of the "color" and body of various composition faces while at the same time supplementing the comments of the typographic experts. More than one hundred illustrations of printers' marks, decorative bookplates, specimen pages, etc., complement the text--From publisher description. |
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... Stanley Morison means when he says " The fine printer begins where the careful printer has left off . " It is this concern with perfection that Conrad cele- brated when he wrote : " Now the moral side of an industry , productive or ...
... Stanley Morison means when he says " The fine printer begins where the careful printer has left off . " It is this concern with perfection that Conrad cele- brated when he wrote : " Now the moral side of an industry , productive or ...
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... Stanley Morison had made avail- able through the Monotype Corporation , and all this with a mul- titude of printers who were set to work and produced but one result - pure Meynell . There is also the more recent example of Mr. Jan ...
... Stanley Morison had made avail- able through the Monotype Corporation , and all this with a mul- titude of printers who were set to work and produced but one result - pure Meynell . There is also the more recent example of Mr. Jan ...
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... Stanley Morison's " First Principles of Typography " ; Deepdene for Frederic Goudy's " Types and Type Design " ; and Centaur for the extracts from Bruce Rogers ' Paragraphs on Printing . Some background on the type selections for other ...
... Stanley Morison's " First Principles of Typography " ; Deepdene for Frederic Goudy's " Types and Type Design " ; and Centaur for the extracts from Bruce Rogers ' Paragraphs on Printing . Some background on the type selections for other ...
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OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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